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Mr. Harvey in the 1800s set up a pioneering chain of Harvey House restaurants alongside the railroad in the United States so that patrons could easily step off the train and enjoy a hot meal before the train was due to depart again in a respectable restaurant versus the local tavern.
Good morning! Time to start our second week of the A to Z Challenge and the options for the letter G are endless. So many great gems to choose from. There’s Gigi the classic Lerner and Loewe musical that was made into a movie by MGM in 1958. As much as I adore Vanessa Hudgens,…
Hi! I’ve made it through the first week of my A to Z Challenge. Woot woot! Congrats to all other bloggers who have made it to the end of the first week. Cabrillo Music Theatre’s A Funny Thing Happened… Photo by Ed Krieger. For today’s post, I want to share a fun comedy musical by…
Today is my 700th post!!! Hope you enjoy as I share an international musical that keeps me coming back time and time again… Elisabeth is a Viennese, German-language musical with book/lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Sylvester Levay. It portrays the life and death of Empress Elisabeth (“Sisi”) of Austria, wife of Emperor Franz…
The Dairy of Anne Frank is a Pulitzer winning play based on the Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl that premiered on Broadway in 1955. The Cast of the 1959 Film. The play was dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and has seen the likes of Susan Strasberg (1955 Original Broadway Cast),…
Today is our 3rd day of the 2019 A to Z Challenge and for the letter C we present the political Chess with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (ABBA) and lyrics by Sir Tim Rice. The musical involves a Cold War chess tournament match between the American and the Russian and their fight…
Ah yes. Today is our 2nd day of the 2019 A to Z Challenge and for the letter B we present the mythical and magical Brigadoon with music and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The musical involves two American tourists from NYC who stumble upon Brigadoon, a mysterious and charming Scottish village…
Good morning and happy first day of April! That means it’s the first day of the A TO Z CHALLENGE. If you recall, I am hoping to use this year’s challenge to share some of my favourite musicals and plays with y’all. So hopefully you’ll stick around for the ride and enjoy! And if you…
This year I will be using the challenge to share about my favourite musicals and plays from A to Z. I reckon some letters will be tough to come by but I will get creative (hehe). I hope you will enjoy tagging along on this journey with me and will hopefully learn something new and/or be able to share something new with me!
Sadly I just don’t have the energy to do the A to Z Challenge this year with the pneumonia, difficulty with my breathing, fatigue, blah blah blah… Hopefully next year I will start up again. 🙂 In the meantime I just returned from the hospital where I had my Pulmonary Function Test… Results tomorrow at…